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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1103705, member: 66&quot;]Remember a half penny equals one cent.&nbsp; A 1/2 cent would be a farthing.&nbsp; There was no such thing as a British Penny coin at the time and if there was it would have been a two cent piece.&nbsp; The equating of the US cent and a Penny was probably&nbsp; from tying it to the New York Money of Account where the New York penny was 1/90th of a dollar.&nbsp; No other colonial or state money of account came closer in value and since New York was the financial center of the country everyone was familiar with the New York Money of Account.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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